Renée works with Australia’s leading directors including Jessica Arthur, Sarah Giles, Sarah Goodes, Lee Lewis, Ian Michael, Paige Rattray, Imara Savage, Shari Sebbens and Kip Williams. 

Design credits include: Costume Design - Opera Conference 2024/25: Rusalka.
Sydney Theatre Company: Stolen, Julia, Grand Horizons, Triple X (Queensland Theatre), The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Banging Denmark, The Torrents (Black Swan State Theatre Company), Black Is The New White, The Bleeding Tree (Griffin), Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark, Orlando, Battle of Waterloo, Perplex, The Effect, The Long Way Home, Dance Better At Parties, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Splinter, Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (La Boite). Costume Design: The Seagull, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Playing Beatie Bow, The Harp in the South: Parts 1 & 2, Saint Joan, Top Girls, Chimerica, Endgame, Children of the Sun, Vere (Faith), Mariage Blanc. Associate Designer: Cyrano De Bergerac. Design Assistant: The Mysteries. Melbourne Theatre Company: Is God Is, Home I'm Darling, Arbus & West. Griffin Theatre Company: Dogged, Prima Facie, The Bleeding Tree, A Hoax, The Boys. Griffin Independent: The Pigeons. Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (Education).  Queensland Theatre: Round the Twist - The Musical, Gaslight, Family Values, First Casualty, Boy Swallows Universe, Mouthpiece, Nearer the Gods, An Octoroon, Rice (Griffin), Sacre Bleu, Fat Pig. La Boite Theatre Company: As You Like It, Ruben Guthrie, I Love You Bro. Brisbane Festival & QPAC: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories Film: Design: A Parachute Falling in Siberia (short). Art Department: The Distance Between (short). Training: National Institute of Dramatic Art & Queensland College of Art.

Resident Designer for Sydney Theatre Company 2012-2014.
A member of the Queensland Theatre National Artistic Team 2016/2017.
Design Director, Queensland Theatre 2021.

Renée has won four Sydney Theatre Awards for: Best Stage Design of a Mainstage Production for STOLEN and THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, and Best Costume Design of a mainstage production for STOLEN and TOP GIRLS. She has received a further seven Sydney Theatre Award nominations for Best Costume Design of a Mainstage Production for her work on GASLIGHT, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, TRIPLE X, DOGGED, PLAYING BEATIE BOW, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, and THE HARP IN THE SOUTH.  She also received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Costume Design for HARP IN THE SOUTH. Renée won a Matilda Award for Best Design for EDWARD GANT’S AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS (Sydney Theatre Company/La Boite).

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